Dad Says Anti-Semite Was Just Drunk

The NY Post has a follow-up to yesterday's story about a man in Williamsburg who found himself surrounded and detained by a group of two dozen Hasidics after going into a store and yelling at the shopkeeper that he "hated Jews" and that they "should all die." The paper released the name of the man, Ben Kircher, who was not arrested because no charges were pressed and spoke to his father, Ben Kircher Sr. His dad, who is estranged from the 28-year-old, says, "I don't want people to think it's a hate crime. It's a drunk thing. He's not that kind of person when he's not drinking,"

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By Billy Parker in News on September 14, 2008 5:39 PM

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Ben Sober

Yes Joclyn I was estranged from my Father due to drinking. We have been reunited now as well with the rest of my family but thank you for having a brain and not just looking at a article and commenting the first thing that comes to mind. It's people like you that help people recover. It's people who post negative comments and who like to bring people down and don't like their own lives and need to talk about other people they don't know to make them feel better about their dull and boring lives! It is a shame but God made all people different. Some good and some just lonley.

Ben Sober

I do apologize to all the Jews I may have offended that day! I will have one year sober on Feb. 20th and my life has changed dramaticly! I have a job now and will be getting married this year. For you tsk tsk tsk and white castle rock get a life and get off your computer and work out a little bit and maybe you'll be happier, because if you don't know someone or only hear one side of a story don't say anything at all!!! I didn't get arrested for a reason! All I know is that I would never sit at a computer all day and put in my 2 cents about someone I didn't know unless I had nothing better to do! LOL!Sorry about your boring life, but good luck.

Joclyn

Is he estranged from his father because of "a drunk thing?"

soopaman

Oye vey!

Brooklynbobby

Really!!! Where is Al Sharpstein when you need him????

takethecanoli

Someone cue the support group for abuse to headgear and large fruit.

Is there an Al Sharpton for such things?

whitecastlerock

They should have just stomped his ass into the ground after all.

NannyState

Anti-semite or not, the kid threw two watermelons to the ground and that crosses a line for all of us.

tsk_tsk_tsk

moron patrol!

splicer: the jerk didn't get pummeled or hit at all. learn to read.

doowop, doth thine ignorance know no bounds? the things this guy said were anti-semitic, they were intended to be, and he knocked off a kid's hat.

jews don't hate you, so stop hatin' on jews.

virgil

...because only a raving paranoiac would interpret "I hate Jews" and "they should all die" as antisemitism? Or is this just exquisitely subtle and ironical?

amsci

*veritas rather.

amsci

In vino vertias.

LMB

Quote:"I don't want people to think it's a hate crime. It's a drunk thing. He's not that kind of person when he's not drinking," Yeah, in other words, a case of "Mel Gibson Syndrome".